I’ve been looking at some more fitting options for the Sabre and the fit below I’m naming “Orbweaver”

To fly it as fitted below I’ll either need to skill up Advanced Weapon Upgrades to V or if I want to fly it right away invest in a Inherent Implants ‘Squire’ Power Grid Management EG-604 to get the bonus to the power grid output of the ship, it’s a tight fit with max skills. With the cost of the EG-604 running around 100mil ISK I’ll likely wait to fit it like below until I get the AWU training in. In the short term I can meta 4 the MSE II and make it work with a EG-601 which is much more affordable or keep the MSE II and swap out one of the rigs for an Ancillary Current Router I. Will have to run those options by the RL brother, he’s a bit of a fitting wiz, and see what he thinks?

Training time should work out well for her to be un-docked just in time for the weekend and hopefully her first Null-Sec roam with some Corp/Alliance mates. It would be nice to get some practice in her while with a Fleet and get some mentoring from a few of the fellas who’ve flown Interdictors before.

But if I can’t get a Fleet up I will likely take her out on a solo tour… fit her out with a Cloaking Device and camp some Gates looking for action – will just need to be a little more picky and careful with my engagements.

I finished my focus on Shield Skills on the weekend, got them all (other than the Capital skills) to Level IV and have used one of my bonus neural remappings to enhance my Perception and Willpower attributes to maximize the rate of Spaceship Command and Gunnery skills training. My next target is to get into the Sabre and with how I’ve got my plan set up I’ll be sitting in one within twelve days regardless of which Clone I’m in, I’ve got one skill in the queue, Spaceship Command V, that is not directly necessary for the Sabre but is one of those skills that effects every ship that you fly so is well worth the extra couple of days that it’ll take to get into Dusky Slug.

I’ve gotten so excited about getting into a Sabre that after scouring zKillboard I’ve mocked up a few fits using EFT and thought it might be fun to get some votes on which one I should build and fly first. There is a poll down at the bottom of this post – here are the contenders:

After reading the “Awesomesauce: The Confessor, The First of the new Tech 3 destroyers.” post over at Evenews24.com I got pretty STOKED on the idea of flying a Tactical Destroyer and have queued up training Minmatar Destroyer to Level V. An added bonus to training Minmatar Destroyer to V is that it will also open up access to being able to fly Interdictors and the Sabre looks like a fun ship to pilot – although it will need some additional skills as well…. namely Science V, Propulsion Jamming V, Graviton Physics I and Interdictors I.

It’s highly likely that the Minmatar T3 Tactical Destroyer will be the last to be introduced, while sucky this will at least give me some time to get the training complete and get some more PvP experience.